Belarus has liberated the opposition leader, more than ten others after the visit of the United States’ envoys

Belarus Tsikhanouskaya team announced on Saturday, a sign of warm relationships between Washington and Belarus-Ally Moscow.

This version came a few hours after the retirement, General Keith Keel, the Special Envoy of President Trump to Ukraine and Russia, met the Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko in Minsk, the highest visit by an American official to the authoritarian state in years.

President Trump directly thanked the wife of Tikhanovsky, Sverana Zikhanskaya, who took the mantle of the opposition movement after her husband’s imprisonment, for the broker of the deal.

Lukashenko spokeswoman said the Belarusian leader had ordered the release of prisoners to “request” by Mr. Trump, Russian government media.

Mr. Trump It seems that the creditWriting, “Thank you, President Trump!” On the social truth platform, along with a link to a news story about the launch of the prisoners.

European politicians and members of Belarus also welcomed the news.

Ursula von der Lin said at X.

“Europe continues to call for its immediate release,” she added.

Poland Foreign Minister Radoslao Sikorski expressed his “morals”, while Latvian President Edgar Renkivix described the freedom of Tijhanovsky as “the moment she was waiting and delayed for a long time.”

German Foreign Minister Johan and Edvol welcomed the release of Tijhanovsky as “good news”, in a post to X.

“At the same time, we should not forget many other prisoners in Belarus. Lukashenko must finally release them,” he added.

Pavel Latushko, former Minister of Culture in Belarus who supported the 2020 protests against Lukashenko, also praised the release of Tikhaneovsky as a “important moment.”

Tikhanovsky, 46, was imprisoned for more than five years.

The famous YouTube had planned to run against Lukashenko in the presidential elections in August 2020, but was arrested and detained weeks before the vote.

In 2021, he was sentenced to 18 years in prison for “organizing riots” and “inciting hatred”, then to another 18 months on “rebellion”.

Svetlana – the political beginner at the time of the arrest of her husband – ran against Lukashenko in his place but lost after what the opposition described it as a wide -scale fraud. She later escaped in Belarus.

“It is difficult to describe joy in my heart,” she said in a post on X after her husband’s release.

Of the 13 others, they were released from IHAR KARNEI radio journalist, who was arrested in 2023 and imprisoned for his participation in an “extremist” organization.

They were now transferred from Belarus to Lithuania, where they were receiving “appropriate care,” said Lithuanian Foreign Minister Kestotis Bodries.

Although either of the individual prisoners need medical assistance in emergency situations, “one of them needs medical attention in emergency” that they were “imprisoned in difficult conditions,” Bodres told the LRT public broadcaster, without clarification.

Swedish Prime Minister Olf Christson said that the Swedish-Parcen citizen Galina Krasnaskaya, who was arrested in 2023, claimed that Ukraine’s support was also released.

Belarus, which has been ruled by Lukashenko since 1994, has banned all real opposition parties. It is the only European country to keep the death penalty as a punishment.

The Eastern European state still holds more than 1,000 political prisoners in its prisons, according to the Biliarosia Group for Human Rights Viasna.

Since he took office, Mr. Trump has participated in direct talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, and to end his predecessor’s policy in isolating the Russian president.

Since then, the nuclear powers have worked to normalize diplomatic relations, which have been for years at the lowest point since the Cold War.

In February, an American citizen Who has been arrested In Belarus, he was one of the three prisoners who were edited to the nursery. Chris Smith, Deputy Assistant Foreign Minister of Eastern Europe, said at the time that the Belarusian authorities had been negotiated in the deal, and pointed to a desire by Lukashenko to have a stronger relationship with the United States

In January, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio Declare Belarus has released an “unilateral” American woman from detention.

Tijhanovsky was holding for heterogeneous years, and in 2023 his wife was told that he had “died.”

In a video posted by Viasna on Saturday, he seemed to be almost unknown, shaved his head and face.

Tikhanovsky, Carisimi activist, drew the anger of the authorities to describe Lukashenko as a “cockroach” and his campaign was “stopping cockroaches”.

Lukashenko won the victory of a landslide in the 2020 elections, a result of the enormous opposition protests violently suppressed the authorities.

The unhappy Baldrase obtained the seventh period in the elections earlier this year the observers refused to be a farce.